It has been said that more than one hundred thousand sea birds kill themselves every year by dashing themselves against the lighthouses along the American coast of the Atlantic Ocean. They fly against the shining lights as they flash across the stormy sea, with such a force that they instantly drop dead on the raging waters, and are cast up dead upon the shore. What a strange sight, to see these poor birds running against that which has been set up to save life, losing theirs.
Yet such is the case, and it only tells what is being done by sinners every day and every hour. The Gospel Lighthouse has been set up by God to guide lost sinners to the haven of safety—to Christ. But instead of being guided to Salvation, many are lost because they fly against the light. They reject and oppose the gospel, and drop into the dark waters of judgment, to be cast up on the shores of a lost eternity.
See to it, reader, that you are not flying against God’s light. You know the gospel well no doubt. You have heard it, read it, sung it, and it may be you know others who by believing and receiving it, have been led to Christ, But have you yourself been saved?—that is the great question.
The light that guides the storm- tossed mariner to the harbor, becomes death to the birds that fly against it, and the gospel of God, by which believers are saved, becomes to the rejector, the savor of death unto death.
ML 01/28/1940